Hett v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
353 F.2d 761 · 1965
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 2022
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1073
Relies on Murphy v. Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor · Sinclair v. United States · Mortensen v. United States · United States v. Judson
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. On December 1, 1962, the robbery of a Kirkland (near Seattle, Washington) grocery store — about $2,600 was taken. 2. On January 24, 1963, a robbery of a branch of the United States National Bank in Portland, Oregon, of approximately $55,000. 3. On March 8, 1963, a robbery of the Northgate branch of the Bon Marche Department Store at Seattle of about $40,000. 4. On March 22, 1963, a robbery of a branch of the Seattle-First National Bank of $4,000 to $7,000. Hett v. United States, 353 F.2d 761, 762 (9th Cir. 1965).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Out of a near partnership in crime with a robber named Richard James Young, the defendant-appellant Ned Edward Hett, a young Seattle lawyer, stands convicted of four of five counts of an indictment concerned with Young’s zigzagging flights to avoid capture and prosecutions. 1 Young fled to Brazil, but was returned to the United States, where he became the main witness against Hett.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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